Commonwealth Center for Advanced Manufacturing (CCAM) is an applied research center providing production-ready advanced manufacturing solutions to our members.
Virginia, USA
Joined March 2014
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EGR 3/4 teams are VERY busy planning, researching (inexpensive or repurposed ) materials for robots, developing turbine blade designs and collecting data from turbine prototypes. @OfficialSHSPack
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Chandra Briggman column: Filling the nation's need for essential medicines richmond.com/opinion/columni… via @RTDOpinions
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GO Virginia Region 4 making some transformational investments.... virginiabusiness.com/article…
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Join us for Membership Town Hall today at 2pm!
Tara Sarver, NCDMM Program Coordinator, will present opportunities for #AMmembers to engage, network, and sponsor events. Questions are welcomed and encouraged. #opportunities #engagement
To register, visit: americamakes.us/events/ameri…
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In "Mechanical properties of tissue-mimicking composites formed by #materialjetting #additivemanufacturing" we demonstrate #3Dprinting of non-curing and photo-curing inks to create #biomimetic materials with tunable mechanical properties. doi.org/10.1016/j.jmbbm.2021…
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To identify cost-reduction opportunities, manufacturers need to understand the drivers of product costs. Optimize CO2 emission strategies and take action: oal.lu/lwOZ4
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We're inspiring the next generation of makers with #MFGDay21! Learn more about the entire month of activities and why it matters. #CreatorsWanted themanufacturinginstitute.or…
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📣 We're answering @ENERGY's call to accelerate #ElectricVehicle charging production in the U.S.!
By expanding our U.S. footprint, we're preparing to manufacture over 1 million #EV chargers for the U.S. in the next four years. See how we're driving an electric future →
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Students finished strongly in their summer internship at
@NASA_Langley, @CCAMVA, @BGB_Innovation, and Ho-Ho-Kus Inc. Thanks for the support from @NASASTEM, @NASAaero, and hosting companies. This is #VSUExcellence. @makolaabdullah @VSU_1882
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We created a customized, unique #logo to complement VGR's "Advanced #PharmaceuticalManufacturing" #campaign. Check it out! #AdvancedManufacturing #Pharma #Cluster #EconDev #EconomicDevelopment
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Congratulations to Lauren Bouchard and Luis Lopez Ruiz for receiving the @UVALinkLab Outstanding Student Service Award. @UVA @uvaece
ALT Side-by-side portraits of Lauren Bouchard and Luis Lopez Ruiz
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Virginia’s public universities, such as @virginia_tech & @UVA, invested more than $355 million in advanced materials research in 2019, and every year billions in federal research dollars are spent in Virginia. Public & private research centers include @NASA_Langley and @CCAMVA.
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From supersonic flight to #3DPrinted organs, #AdditiveManufacturing can bring once-impossible ideas to life.
And in a new #OptimisticOutlook podcast, @SiemensUS_CEO imagines its potential for supply chain and infrastructure resilience:
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What #TechForSustainability means to me…
‚Tech for Sustainability‘ is a global @Siemens initiative to leverage #technology for solving real-world #sustainability challenges and shaping our future.
Join the kick-off event on July 27!
ecosystem.siemens.com/topic/…
#SIEx
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We took one last chance to wish our lab Olympian, Ian Ho, good luck on his upcoming races! He delayed his PhD to pursue his Olympic dream - he represents HK in the 50m & 100m freestyle. He returns to @VirginiaTech_ME this fall to continue his PBF #additivemanufacturing research.
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We have liftoff on #Apollo11! At 9:32 am on July 16, 1969, Neil Armstrong, Michael Collins, and Buzz Aldrin launched atop a massive Saturn V rocket on their historic journey to the Moon: s.si.edu/2ShSJMQ
ALT Saturn V launching against a blue sky
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#DidYouKnow the boosters are the most powerful solid rocket boosters ever built for flight? Each booster’s five-segment motor burns six tons of solid propellant every second to generate 3.6 million pounds of thrust.
Nerd out over these towers of power >> go.nasa.gov/3xseVaQ
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American manufacturers are born innovators. Manufacturing USA is a national network working to ensure what is invented in the US will be made here by a skilled American workforce. Join the innovation revolution: manufacturingusa.com/?utm_so… #MFGUSA #AdvancedManufacturing #FutureOfMFG
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More than 4,000 @SiemensMobility employees across the nation have supported passenger rail in the U.S. for over 30 years.
And today, we're proud to support the next era of rail infrastructure investment with historic contracts from @Amtrak.
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This International Women in Engineering Day we celebrate #EngineeringHeroes who are shaping the world - specifically the many women in #additivemanufacturing who are coordinating & catalyzing new technologies, materials, data, design, standards and more! #INWED21 #Shapetheworld
